Probably going to make a necrolockdom named Maradon just for old times sake.
Edit: Servers going to be coming down soon. If no new servers are added during the downtime, I'll be moving to Alsbeth, as it is the newest PvE server to go up. Willias fucked around with this message on 02-24-2011 at 04:28 PM.
Edit: Change dat, going to Aedraxis Willias fucked around with this message on 02-24-2011 at 06:38 PM.
Probably going to be playing Defiant most frequently.
Long version:
--It's new.
--Unlike most other recent MMOs, this one isn't terrible past level 20 or so.
--Class system is interesting. You pick one of four different "callings" when making your character (Warrior, Rogue, Cleric, Mage). From here, as you play through the newbie area, you select 3 of 8 different "souls" which operate as your character's role and talent trees.
As an example, a Warrior can choose:
So in the newbie area (levels 1-6) you pick 3 of those souls as a warrior, and that determines what abilities you have access to, what abilities you can access as you level up, and what role your character will be.
You earn 66 talent points as you level up (1 every level, 2 every 3rd level) and as you put points into the tree for each soul, you unlock abilities specific to that soul. Maybe checked out what is effectively a talent calc for the game would demonstrate it a bit better: Zam's Rift Calc
Each calling can be:
And then on top of all that, your character can have up to 4 different combinations of souls that you can swap between any time you're not in combat.
--Finally, the game handles Warhammer's Public Quests a bit more elegantly, and on top of that, zones occasionally have these giant invasion events where the zone goes nuts and various quest hubs in the zone get zerged by NPC forces. Requirements for completion can vary from destroying enemy invasion forces, to closing rifts, to attacking enemy footholds and gathering resources. Completing these events gives really nice rewards to anyone who helped with the event.
The last thing is the reason I picked up the game. The massive invasions that happen are straight up amazing, and bring back memories of GM events from EverQuest and the ring event in the Great Divide in Velious. Willias fucked around with this message on 02-28-2011 at 04:22 PM.
Even better when it's one of the BIG invasions and the entire zone is fucked.
Also, the rate that invasions spawn is based on the number of people playing in a zone.
Later on, when there is drastically less people in the newbie zones, the cities won't be getting hit as hard.
